X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Message-ID: <47339002.9000204@cygwin.com> Date: Thu, 08 Nov 2007 17:38:58 -0500 From: "Larry Hall (Cygwin)" Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.1.3) Gecko/20070505 Remi/2.0.0.0-3.fc4.remi Thunderbird/2.0.0.0 Mnenhy/0.7.5.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Cron event logs says (*system*) NOT REGULAR... what does this mean References: <001201c8223f$44c7adc0$2e08a8c0@CAM.ARTIMI.COM> <050d01c82241$c1dca2a0$b40410ac@wirelessworld.airvananet.com> <002501c82247$fc13af30$2e08a8c0@CAM.ARTIMI.COM> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com Jerome Fong wrote: > Dave Korn wrote: >> On 08 November 2007 20:28, Jerome Fong wrote: >> >>> Pierre A. Humblet wrote: >>>>> On 08 November 2007 19:29, Jerome Fong wrote: >>>>> >>>>>> I got cron working as a daemon, but now it stopped working again. >>>>>> I'm >>>>>> getting the following errors in the cronevents output. Anyone >>>>>> know what >>>>>> this means? 2007/11/08 11:02:18 [SYSTEM] /usr/sbin/cron: PID 1644: >>>>>> (*system*) NOT REGULAR (/etc/cron.d/cron.daily) >>>> It means that file is not a regular file. >>>> >>>> Pierre >>>> >>>> >>> I (jfong) owned the file. Should (*system*) own the file? Sorry, I >>> don't understand what it means when you say it is not a regular file? >>> What makes it Not Regular? >> >> Is it a symlink? >> >> >> cheers, >> DaveK > > No, they are files not links What does 'ls -l /etc/cron.d/cron.daily' say? -- Larry Hall http://www.rfk.com RFK Partners, Inc. (508) 893-9779 - RFK Office 216 Dalton Rd. (508) 893-9889 - FAX Holliston, MA 01746 _____________________________________________________________________ A: Yes. > Q: Are you sure? >> A: Because it reverses the logical flow of conversation. >>> Q: Why is top posting annoying in email? -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/